PRIVACY POLICY

Design Polymerics (“DP”) provides this Privacy Policy to explain our practices regarding the processing of certain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about visitors of this website. PII, as used in U.S. privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

We at DP are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of personal identification information (“Personal Information”) you share with us.

Personal Information includes any information that may be used to identify you, such as: first and last name, home or other physical address, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, or other contact information that is provided to us by you, or any other party. In general, you may visit DP web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself.  You should be aware that if you choose to provide us with your Personal Information, we will not transfer that Information to any third parties. At no point will we sell your information to any third party marketing service that we do not use to improve our customer relationships.  DP strives to comply with all applicable laws around the globe that are designed to protect your privacy. Although legal requirements may vary from country to country, DP intends to adhere to the principles set forth in this Online Privacy Policy.

Design Polymerics (“DP”) has established this Online Privacy Policy to help you understand how we intend to treat your Personal Information on our website that you may or may not visit designpoly.com

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website?
You may choose whether or not to provide Personal Information to DP’s website. However, when you engage in certain activities on DP’s website we may ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, DP may require that you provide certain personal information, such as your name, email address, and/or other personal identifying information (“Personal Data”) to help you with your experience.

DP will only collect Personal Information where it is relevant for the purposes for which we are collecting it. We will not process any Personal Information for any purposes that are incompatible with the purposes for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by you.

DP does not collect Sensitive Information such as medical, health, racial, ethnic, political, religious, philosophic, union membership or sexual orientation information. If we are made aware that we have received such information, we will delete this information.

When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you fill out a form or enter information on our site.

How do we use your information?
We may use such information in the following ways:

  • To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.

How do we protect visitor information?
Wherever your Personal Information may be held by DP, we maintain technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Data against loss and unauthorized access, use, destruction, modification, or disclosure, appropriate to the level of risk and sensitivity of the Personal Data. However, no degree of preventive security measures can guarantee against compromise.

Children’s Privacy
DP’s website is not structured to attract children. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect Personal Information from anyone we know to be under 13 years of age. If we are made aware that information is or has been submitted by or collected from a child under the age of thirteen, we will delete this information.

Do we use ‘cookies’?
When you visit DP’s website, you can browse the site anonymously and access important information without revealing your identity. In order to analyze and improve our site, we may use “cookies” to track your visit.

Cookies are small files that are transferred to your browser (if you allow them) by a Web server that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. A cookie can only be read by the server that gave it to you and cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses.  For instance, a cookie can be used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. (For some Web pages that require an authorization, cookies are not optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will not be able to access those pages.) While we may uses cookies to track your visit on our website, and our Web servers automatically log the IP/Internet address of your computer, this information does not identify you personally and you remain anonymous unless you have otherwise provided us with personal information.

We use cookies to:

  • Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
  • Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third party services that track this information on our behalf.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your internet browser’s settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you disable or delete certain cookies in your internet browser settings, you might not be able to access or use some features of this website and some of our services may not function properly.

More information about cookies and how they work is available at: www.allaboutcookies.org.

How can you opt out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?
You can request to have your information removed by calling us at (800) 641-0808. Please note that we may maintain information about an individual for record keeping purposes.

Third Party Disclosures
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. We may release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

Third Party Links
We do not offer third party products or services on our website.

Access and Accuracy
To the extent that you do provide us with Personal Information, DP wishes to maintain it accurately. Where we collect Personal Information from you, our goal is to provide a means of contacting us should you need to update or correct that Information. If for any reason you desire to review such information, please contact us at sales@designpoly.com and we will make reasonable efforts to provide you with such information. Further, if you notify us that such information is incorrect, or you wish to have such information removed, we will correct, amend, or delete your Personal Information as soon as practicable.

Transfer of Your Personal Information
Your information, including personal information, will not be transferred to computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal information will take place to another organization or country.

Disclosure of Your Personal Information
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide notice through our website’s Privacy Policy before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Retention of Your Personal Information
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Information Regarding Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your personal information.

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information, as described in this Privacy Policy, depends on the information we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. We may process your personal information because:

  • We need to perform a contract with you, such as when you create a Policy with us
  • You have given us permission to do so
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights
  • To comply with the law

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or to delete the personal information we have on you
  • The right of rectification
  • The right to object
  • The right of restriction
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to withdraw consent

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

Service Providers
We employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Website (“Service Providers”), to provide our Website on our behalf, to perform Website-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Website is used. These third-parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

  • Analytics
    • Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Consent
By using DP’s website, you consent to the terms of our Online Privacy Policy and to DP’s processing of Personal Information for the purposes given above. Should the Online Privacy Policy change, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that these changes are brought to your attention by posting all changes prominently on our web site.

Contacting Us
DP is committed to protecting your privacy and supports current industry initiatives to preserve individual privacy rights on the Internet.  If you have any comments or questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to request modification or removal of your Personal Data, you may contact us at (800) 641-0808, by mail at Design Polymerics, 3301 W. Segerstrom Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92704, or by emailing sales@designpoly.com.